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Michael Slack

Proven Verdicts
Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Slack Davis Sanger
Austin, TXAdmitted 1983

About Michael Slack

Michael L. (Mike) Slack is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Slack Davis, where he focuses on the most complex and demanding areas of civil litigation, including aviation accidents and product liability cases against major corporations. A licensed pilot and former NASA senior aerospace engineer, Mike brings technical depth to catastrophic-injury litigation that few trial lawyers can match. His legal career spans more than 36 years and hundreds of lawsuits arising from catastrophic injuries and deaths caused by unsafe products or practices. For most of that time he has concentrated on aviation crashes, handling cases across every segment of the industry from major airline disasters to small general-aviation aircraft, in state and federal courts in 36 states.

Before entering law, Mike worked on the Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle programs at NASA and received special agency recognition for his contributions. He is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both Aviation Law and Personal Injury Trial Law, and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocate. In 2002, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics named him an Associate Fellow, a rare distinction for an attorney. He has also been honored with the Distinguished Aerospace Engineer Alumni Award by Texas A&M University.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$52 millionSettlement

Roughly 700,000 Texas auto insurance policyholders shared a $52 million class settlement after a federal lawsuit showed Farmers Group charged long-term customers higher premiums than new customers for coverage that was functionally identical.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (Austin Division) · 2020Read the full story →
$3.35 millionVerdict

A mother and her two toddler daughters, each diagnosed with PTSD after surviving the American Airlines Flight 1420 runway crash in Little Rock, won a $3.35 million jury verdict that the Eighth Circuit affirmed in full.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas (affirmed 8th Cir. 2003) · 2000Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
Settlement

Michael Slack secured a confidential settlement against Robinson Helicopter after defective aluminum fuel tanks on an R-44 ruptured in a 2006 Fredericksburg, Texas crash and fire that killed the pilot and two passengers, with the deal requiring Robinson to retrofit its entire fleet with crash-resistant bladder tanks.

Texas (settled pre-trial) · 2009Product LiabilityRead the full story →
Verdict

After two jury trials and years of appeals, the family of a New Mexico State Police officer killed in a 2001 air-ambulance helicopter crash won a wrongful-death verdict against the hospital that hired the operator without adequately vetting its fitness.

New Mexico District Court (affirmed NM Court of Appeals 2008) · 2008Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
Settlement

Michael Slack and Ladd Sanger of Slack and Davis secured a confidential settlement in March 2014 for the family of Stuart Robertson, one of five people killed when a Blue Hawaiian Helicopters tour flight crashed into a mountain ridge on Molokai, Hawaii, on November 10, 2011.

U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii (Honolulu) · 2014Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Texas School of Law
J.D., 1983
Texas A&M University, Aerospace Engineering
Undergraduate, 1973

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas, admitted 1983

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